Rake's pasta - a twist on Pasta puttanesca

My kitchen is full of food including fruit & vegetables, tins, packets, plus the contents of the fridge and freezer, but with all this food it's still difficult to decide what to cook for lunch.Pasta is our "go to" for lunches, as it's so quick and easy, from the simplest...

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Super simple paella

I’ve always used my traditional paella recipe, starting with making a sofrito, but this needs fresh tomatoes. A couple of weeks ago, I didn’t have any fresh tomatoes, but we still fancied a paella so I used tomato purée instead with the chicken flavour soup mix as stock and it tastes amazing.https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/kosher/osem-chicken-soup-400gIngredients (serves...

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Turkey and mushroom supreme - an easy way to use up cooked turkey or chicken

Left Over turkey/chickenYou've roasted the turkey for Christmas or perhaps you have the remains of the chicken from your Sunday roast, what can you do with it? Now I adore curry, but unfortunately, my hubby can't eat an Indian style curry, so instead, I make my Thai curry. If...

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